Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-16

ballots exceed the wh0le nulnDer OIL votes as
No properly endorsed ballot IL found In the
wrong box shall be rejected, * II does not
produce an excess OF votes. IL greater
number of ballots shall be found In box
list, all the ballots shall be replaced In the
box, and one of the judges, with his back to
the box, shall draw out and destroy as many
ballots unopened as shall be equal to the eX-
cess.
COUNTING THE BALLOTS.
The judges shall then open the ballots. and
place those which contain the same names
together so that the several kinds shall be in
separate piles. One of the judges shall then
take the kind of ballots which appears to be
the greatest In number and
COUNT THEM by TENS,
carefully exalning each name OH each said
ballots. Such judges shall then pass the ten
ballots to the inspector sitting next to him,
who shall count them In the same manner,
and he shall pass them to the third judge,
who shall also count them in the sane man.
ner. The third Judge shall then call the
names of the persons named In the ballots,
and the offices for which they are designated.
and the poll clerk shall tally the votes TO!
each Of such persons. The fourth Judge shall
watch the proceedings OF the other judges
and the poll clerks, and at his option may
perform the same duties In respect to the
canvass as are prescribed for the third Judge
or in of the %non S the ,e poll sontn GsT
of each kind Of ballots shall be. completed,
the poll clerks shall compare their tallies to,
gether and ascertain the total number OF bal
they agree upon the number, one Of them
shall announce 1t, In a loud voice to the
judges. The kind of ballots which appear to
be next greatest in number, and afterwards
sion shall then be canvassed in the same
manner. The ballots containing names
partly for one kind of ballots and partly for
another, being those usually called split
person proper be voted for on such ballots
has been omitted or eraced, usually called
scratched tickets, shall then be canvassed sep
arately by one of the judges sitting between
call each hame to the poll clerks. and the
Office for which 1t IS designated, the other
judges looking at the same time, and the
poll clerks making note Of the same. When
canvassed in this manner, the poll clerk
shall compare their tallies together and ascer-
tain the total number of votes received by
each candidate, and ,Sh when They they agree upon
loud voice, to the judges the number of
votes received by each candidate, on each of
the Kinds of ballots containing his name. the
number received BY him on the split ana
votes received BY him. If, after the ballots
In any box have been opened or canvassed,
the whole number of them shall be found to
sssssd Sssss reoa,ed shs whole the nuSss eofe,DonS
ing columns Of the polI-lists, the said
inspector shall return all the ballots into the
box, and shall thoroughly minglo the same
ana one Of the Judges to De dsSsign.ted ,S by
with his back to the box publicly draw out
Of such box SO many Of such ballots as shall
be equal to the excess, which shall be forth
with destroyed; but II the ballots have been
canvassed, the votes for the persons named
therein shall first be deducted from the votes
entered for such person on the tallies.
The canvass of the ballots found in any
many ballots of the same kind correspond
ing in respect to the names of the persons
thereon and the offices for which they are
designated, have been received; and the re-
suit being found, the said judge shall secure
ly paste or attach to each statement of such
canvass hereinafter directed to be made one
ballot of each kind found to have been given
for the officers to be chosen at said elections,
and they shall state in words at full length
Immediately opposite such ballots, and writ
ten partly on such ballot and partly on the
paper to which it shall be- pasted or attached,
were received which correspond with the one
so pasted or attached, so that one Of each
kind Of the ballots received at such election
for the officers then to be chosen shall be
pasted or attached to such statement Of such
canvass. Ii only one ballot to any kind
shall be found in the box, 1t shall be pasted
or attached to the statement TO be delivered
to hs p, sk Of % ay 1e knS iS osna Gpd G po
one shall be pasted or attached to the state
ment to be delivered to the clerk of the city
council and the other to the statement to be
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paste pas or ' stt.eS ali the ballots % rejected Sy BY
them as being defective in whole VI in part.
to the statement to be delivered to the clerk
When the canvass of the ballots found in
any box shall have been completed, ana the
poll clerks shall have announced to the
Judges the total number of votes received by
each candidate the chairman Of the board Of
judges Of election or, In his absence. the in
spector acting as such, shall proclaim in
loud voice the total number Of votes received
BY each Of the persons !s W voted for upon the
which they are designed, and such pr0cla-
nation shall be prma facie evidence Of the
result of the canvass of such ballots.
The judges shall Immediately after such
proclamation deliver to a patrolman on duty
at the polling places q statement subscribed
with their names, which shall be forthwith
conveyed by said patrOlman to the police
Gated; and the captain or sergeant or other
officer in charge shall Immediately transmit,
by telegraph or otherwise, the result OF such
statement to the clerk of the city council.
Der of votes In such ballot box, and the num-
ber of votes found therein for each and every
candidate. The captain or sergeant in com
mand shall Immediately deliver said state
ment to the clerk Of the city council, whose
duty 1t shall be to file and preserve the
same.
Within twenty-four hours after the several
statements shall have been subscribed, one OF
said judges shall deliver to the CLERK of the
board of cOuncilmen the statement directed
to him; another judge shall deliver to tho
county clerk the statement directed to him; {;
and third judge shall deliver to the mayor
the statement directed to him. One of the
poll clerks shall deliver to the may or the tai
lies directed to him, and the other poll clerk
shall deliver to the city clerk the TALES di-
rected to him, and to the county clerk.
The poll list kept at such election shall be
certified in writing by both poll clerks
the. vote cast at the said election in
their respective election districts, and
within twenty-four hours of the close of the
canvass shall be filed by such poll-clerks the
one in the Office of the county clerk,the other
In the Office of the chief of the bureau OF
elections and shall be there preserved.
The remaining ballots not so pasted or at
tached to said statements, as heIeinbefore
provided, shall be destroyed.
The envelope delivered to the clerk of the
city council shall be kept sealed, and shall
not be opened until the same are produced
before the board of county canvassers.
The envelopes delivered to the county
clerk shall be kept sealed and unopened until
the said judges shall maze triplicate state
ments of the result of the canvass and esIi.
mate the votes. Each OF the statements shall
be enclosed in an envelope, which shall tnen
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